White House urges developers to dump C and C++::Biden administration calls for developers to embrace memory-safe programing languages and move away from those that cause buffer overflows and other memory access vulnerabilities.
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Probably a good idea, plenty of languages out there that can give good performance while being memory safe nowadays.
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Such as? (Non-programmer here, so I don’t know the ins and outs of programming languages.)
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Zig and Rust come to mind, at least for replacements for low level languages.
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Isn’t that only microsoft exclusive and closed source? Also does compiling it really yield the same speed as C, it is garbage collected isn’t it?
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